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CVE-2023-5822: Drag and Drop Multiple File Upload - Contact Form 7 <= 1.3.7.3 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Plan (action score 40/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 1.7% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 78.2% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

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Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

The Drag and Drop Multiple File Upload - Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to insufficient file type validation in the 'dnd_upload_cf7_upload' function in versions up to, and including, 1.3.7.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible. This can be exploited if a user authorized to edit form, which means editor privileges or above, has added a 'multiple file upload' form field with '*' acceptable file types.

CriticalCVSS 9.8 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

Published: Nov 22, 2023
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 1.7% · 78th percentile
CWE: CWE-434

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Plan

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CVSS: 39 / 40 · 9.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 1 / 30 · 1.7%

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 9.8
CNA · Wordfence: 8.1; 1.7 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Vendor	Product	CPE
codedropz	drag and drop multiple file upload - contact form 7	cpe:2.3:a:codedropz:drag_and_drop_multiple_file_upload_-_contact_form_7

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

codedropz drag and drop multiple file upload - contact form 7up to 1.3.7.3 inclusive

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Wordfence). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

glenwpcoder Drag and Drop Multiple File Upload for Contact Form 7
- up to and including 1.3.7.3affected · semver

Same product

codedropz: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2020-12800The drag-and-drop-multiple-file-upload-contact-form-7 plugin before 1.3.3.3 for WordPress allows Unrestricted File Upload and remote code ex
63This week
CVE-2025-3515Drag and Drop Multiple File Upload for Contact Form 7 <= 1.3.8.9 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via Insufficient Blacklist Checks
41Plan
CVE-2023-1112Drag and Drop Multiple File Upload Contact Form 7 admin-ajax.php path traversal
40Plan

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2023-1282Apr 17, 2023 · Drag and Drop Multiple File Upload PRO - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
24Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2022-45364May 24, 2023 · WordPress Drag and Drop Multiple File Upload – Contact Form 7 Plugin <= 1.3.6.5 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
35Monitor
Later →CVE-2024-3717May 2, 2024 · Drag and Drop Multiple File Upload – Contact Form 7 <= 1.3.7.7 - Sensitive Information Exposure
30Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

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Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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Credits

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István MártonPatchstack Bug Bounty Programfinder

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).